Descendants Celebrate 50 Years of French 500 Legacy
In Gallipolis a parade marks the 163 year link to the French 500 as 50 descendants participate. Chauncey Thevenin, great grandson of Nicholas Thevenin, attends, while a fatal auto accident during the morning parade claims Miss Bessie Blazer. Gallipolis State Institute wins $25 Rotary prize. Evans Packing and Evans Grocery fund youth and school floats with $25 and $15 prizes awarded to Waterloo and Mercerville High Schools.
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Gallipolis
Lafayette Hotel
Public Square
Chauncey Thevenin
Nicholas Thevenin
Old Centenary Cemetery
Green Two
Frank Lausche
Bessie Blazer
A. J. Lloyd
Second Ave
Tomobile
Silas Hamilton
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis State Institute
Rotary Club
Evans Packing Co
Evans Packers
Evans Grocery Co
Waterloo High School
Mercerville High School
Traffic Accidents Fatal To Three SEO Residents
Three Southeastern Ohioans died in crashes on Saturday in the state. Mark Shato and his wife of Gallipolis State Institute, and Thomas E. Hook of Millfield were killed in separate wrecks near Springfield and Marietta. Two others, Marshall Jenkins and Alice Jenkins of St. Paris, were injured in Mercy Hospital.
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Springfield
Smith Runyan
Troy
Richards
Waugh
Gallipolis
Hook
West
Ezra Spencer
Larry
Palestine
Wirt County
W. Va
Bitter clashes as POWs spurn Red explanations
Allied and communist officers clashed Saturday as 430 Chinese war prisoners refused Red attempts to win them back to communism. Only nine of 430 complied, following a day when 10 of 500 had yielded on Thursday. The standoff involved UN Commander and Red Observers and a forced three hour listening session for one anti Reds POW.
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Panminiom
Man Admits Setting Fire To Hide Theft
ZANESVILLE Ohio Roland E Kine 34 of Adams Mills admitted Friday he started a 3500 fire in a barn to cover up a 1 25 theft Sheriff Dave Weissert said Kine set fire to the barn of W R King of Adams Mills Tuesday after stealing a battery from a tractor.
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Zanesville
Ohio
Roland E. Kine
Adams Mills
Dave Weissert
Kine
W. R. King
Tot Dies in Fire in Ravenna Apartment Blaze
In Ravenna Ohio Clark Stassen age 3 died Friday after fleeing back into a lazily managed apartment while his mother Mrs Paul Stassen and another child Paula age 4 were assisted from the building.
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Ravenna
Ohio
Clark Stassen
Paul Stassen
Paula
French Navy Tightens Rebel Noose in Indochina
French forces blew up two bridges on the coastal highway below Thanh Hao to isolate Vietminh units facing a push between Cap Road and the Red River delta. Gen. Henri Navarre directed operations from Arromanches as 25 000 rebels regroup near Thanh Tao and Phu Nho Quan 80 miles south of Hanoi.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Thanh Hao
Cap Road
Red River
Henri Navarre
Arromanches
Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf
No. 34
Thanh Tao
Phu Nho Quan
Journal ism School Founder Dies at 86
Joseph S. Myers, who taught many young men and women the fundamentals of journalism, died Saturday at age 86 in Middletown Ohio. He was invited to Ohio State University in 1914 to start a school of journalism after a career as reporter and executive.
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Middletown
Ohio
Joseph S. Myers
Myers
Ohio State University
Columbus
Hopalong Admits Ohio Birthplace
Hopalong Cassiday disclosed in Clairsville Ohio that he was born in Hendrysburg Ohio not in the West. He applied for a birth certificate naming William L Bey born June 5 1895 to verify his birthplace and identity.
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St, Clairsville
Ohio
Hopalong
FBI probing Leyte explosion on carrier amid 36 deaths
FBI and Naval intelligence hunted for sabotage signs in the Leyte s below deck area after a fatal explosion and fire killed 36 crew and civilian workers. A Navy board will hear testimony as investigators pursue causes while the ship remains docked and secured.
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Boston
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Naval Intelligence
Leyte
Navy
Naval
Naval Board of Inquiry
FBI
Beaton FBI
Thomas A. Ahroon
Norfolk
Ohio Sailor Among Carrier Casualties
Columbus report lists Joseph W Théobald of Findlay Ohio as seriously wounded among carrier Leyte explosion casualties. Next of kin named as his father Joseph William of 1816 W Main Cross St Findlay. Jackie P Hackett of Bancroft West Virginia is named among the killed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Joseph W. Théobald
Findlay
Leyte
Boston
Theobald
Joseph William
W. Main Cross St
Jackie P. Hackett
Bancroft
W. Va
Taber Attacks Embassy Secretary Housing Cost as Extravagance
Rep. John Taber cites a $137,000 embassy secretary residence as an example of waste. He says belt-tightening is needed to balance the fiscal year 1935 federal budget and pledges to push cuts, including the Rome embassy secretary’s residence, if Eisenhower fails to present a balanced plan.
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Washington
John Taber
House Appropriations Committee
sRome
Eisenhower
Congress
Taber
Wellston Postmaster Resigns Amid Investigation
The Democratic postmaster of Wellston Ohio Arthur B Bishop announced his resignation Friday citing indifference of three civil service employees and outside interference by one person in particular The office had been investigated by postal inspectors prior to the resignation.
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Wellston
Ohio
Arthur B. Bishop
WNU Manager John Ey Sr. Dies in Cincinnati
John A. Ey Sr., longtime manager of the Western Newspaper Union Cincinnati office since 1933, died Friday. Ey led operations and served the paper distribution network in Ohio for decades.
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WNU
Cincinnati
John A. Ey,Sr
Western Newspaper Union
Mastermind Behind $100000 Wheeling Theft Nabbed
Ohio authorities say Phillip Anderson 46 admitted planning the $100000 cash robbery of a Wheeling physician and claimed a 10 percent cut. He waived extradition and was en route to Wheeling on a robbery charge. Dallas police reported $30000 seized from two suspects in Texas and Corpus Christi officers seized another $30000 after Dallas linked the loot to the Ohio case.
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Lima
Ohio
Wheeling
IW. VA
Phillip Anderson
Anderson
Ralph Lapore
Limapo- Mee
Dallas
Tex
Iowa
California
Corpus Christi
Texas
Sammons
Varied College Football Scores Across Numerous Programs
A sprawling roundup lists scores from many colleges and universities including Ohio U over Kent State 40 to 2, Ohio State beating Pennsylvania and Michigan 20 to 12, LSU 16 over Georgia Yale 6, Army 14 over Duke 13, Michigan State 47 percent in some games, Indiana 18 over Navy 65, and Notre Dame 23 over Pittsburch 14 among others. The compilation mixes results, some inconsistencies and OCR quirks, with multiple teams and matchups in a single line.
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Ohio U
Kent State
Ohio State
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Northwestern
Columbia
Harvard
LSU
Georgia
Yale
Cornell
W&m
Virginia Tech
Virginia Military
Virginia
Heidelberg
Capital
Army
Duke
Michigan State
Indiana
Navy
Princeton
Cincinnati
Xavier
Brown
Rutgers
Colgate
Dartmouth
Mlinois
Minnesota
Iowa
Wyoming
Hobart
Kenyon
Temple
Bucknell
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Miammi Fia
Wilmington
Otterhein
Oberlin
Allegheny
Defiance
Findlay
Town State
Missouri
Tennessee
Alabama
Richmond
Kansas State
Colorado
Lafayette
W. Maryland
Texas
Arkansas
Texas A&m
TCL
Notre Dame
Pittsburch
Penn State
Syracuse
Maryland
North Carolina
Wisconsin
UN Action Urged To End Israel Jordan Clashes
Western powers press United Nations to intervene after rising Israel Jordan violence. Big Three urge emergency Security Council meeting to assess armistice compliance and security threats in the region. Denmark's Bennike may report on UN truce observance to the Council.
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Israel-Jordan
United Nations
N.Y
United States
Britain
France
UN Secur
Arab Country Council
Jordan
Willliam Borberg
Danish Council
New York
Israel
Vagne Bennike
UN Truce Observatinun
Council
London
Senator Young urges Benson to quit over farm policy trust
Senator Young asserts Secretary Benson sought to resign after losing farmer confidence. He notes Benson’s backing on crop price supports remains disputed and cites a Democratic win in Wisconsin’s GOP district as farmer discontent. Young criticizes Eisenhower farm speech as indefinite.
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Washington
Sen
Young
R-Nd
Benson
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Suh
Senate Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee
Eisenhower
Kansas City
Fake Detective Held In Bogus Check Case
A 40 year old man who posed as a Pinkerton detective was jailed on a charge of stealing a 633 dollar check from the mails in Cleveland. Clarence Miller had been sought for three weeks on check fraud totaling 4160 dollars and admitted cashing bogus checks totaling 2752 dollars in Parkersburg Bluefield Marietta Dover Vermilion and Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Pinkerton
Clarence Miller
Parkersburg
Bluefield
W.va
Marietta
Dover
Bellaire
Vermilion
Dean Plans for New Post and Eye Surgery
BERKELEY Calit- Maj- Gen. William F. Dean former prisoner of the Koreas Recs will leave Monday for Washington D C for reassignment and an operation on his left eye.
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Berkeley
Calit
William F. Dean
Recs
Korea
Washington, D.C
Navy Jet Sets World Speed Record at Edwards Air Force Base
The Douglas Aircraft Company announced that pilot Bob Rahn flew the F11D oray jet interceptor at an average speed near 2,211 miles per hour on a closed course at Edwards California to set a new world speed record. He reportedly beat a prior mark set by Duke in England last September 19.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Muroc
Calif
Douglas Aircraft Company
Navy
Bob Rahn
Douglas
Dunsidls
Surrey
England
GE to issue stock on 75th anniversary births
General Electric reported 180 newborn stockholders ready to claim about 71 600 dollars of stock after a Friday announcement marking the companys 75th anniversary. The stock would go to employees or dependents with five shares each as West Coast returns continued.
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New York
UPI
General Electric Co
West and Allies Eye Big Four Talks Over German Peace
United States Britain and France agreed to discuss an East-West security system with Russia as part of a final German peace settlement. Foreign ministers approved terms of notes to Moscow within 48 hours and proposed a Big Four conference in Lugano Switzerland around November 9.
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London
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Moscow
Lugano
Switzerland
Italian Premier Quits if Allies Back Down on Trieste
Rome reports Prime Minister Giuseppi Pelia warned that his government will resign if Western Allies retreat on Trieste under Yugoslav or Russian pressure. Britain France and the United States met amid the crisis in London as Pelia won a sweeping confidence vote.
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Rome
Giusenne Pelia
Ai Che
Senate
Trieste
Britain
France
United Stat
Lomaon
Ohio University Surges Past Kent State 40 21 in Homecoming Clash
Ohio University defeats Kent State 40 to 21 before 10 417 Homecoming crowd in Ohio Stadium. Sawchik makes a spectacular one handed touchdown catch for the Bobcats late in the fourth quarter. Stevelander and Ahlberg fuel the clinching scoring as OU turns a seesaw battle into a decisive win.
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Jack Gilbert
Ohio University
Kent State
Golden Flashes
Ohio Stadium
Bobcats
Sawehik
Kent
Stevelander
Ohio
Don Burke
Erland Ahlberg
Sawchik
Onis U
Bobcat
Bill Frederick
Fulback
Jim Cullom
Lik
Tom
Ascani
John Schwab
Massive Oakland Waterfront Fire Destroys Buildings
A five alarm blaze swept three block long waterfront structures in Oakland causing extensive damage. One warehouse reportedly held 10 million dollars in government property bound for Korea and the Far East. Another Allied Enterprises building housed 20 million dollars worth of food for Korea and troop supplies. Fire damage estimated at least two million. In Newark a separate homicide investigation followed the death of John T. McGreevy under foul play suspected. coroner reported blunt force injuries near the head.
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Oakland
Calif
Korea
Far East
Revert J. Cooney
Allied Enterprises
Post Exchange
Pacific
Hurley Marine Newark
Sth Ave
John T. McGreevy
San Francisco Bay Area
McGreevy
MM. H. Koehler
Ker
Forger in Court on Forgery Charges in Gifts to Officials
An ex-con with 67 aliases faced three counts of forgery after sending gifts to Ike Eisenhower and U. S. Senators using worthless checks. U.S. Attorney James Piragine said the checks were far pricier than the gifts. In related news, a crash near here killed three men: Harold Fent 18, Clarence Dodson 45, James Harris 32.
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Eisenhower
U. S
L. S
James Piragine
Marc Hand
Nixon
Ohio
Wholesale Gas Rate Proposal Suspended by Commission
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co faced a suspended rate proposal as the commission set hearings to begin in September. The company had sought a $1 natural gas rate increase to take effect October 1, affecting Ohio customers and markets.
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Commissio
Ohio
Eisenhower stresses foreign trade for New Orleans port
President Eisenhower on Saturday urged strengthening trends to protect foreign trade as New Orleans celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, underscoring the port’s role for America’s heartland.
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New Orleans
Eisenhower
America
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Lou
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Bob Spence
Frank Underwood
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Nercia
Lou Figeling
Messenger
Gon Moore
Huff
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
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Mississippi
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Central State
GOP
Germany
Ttaly
Tuo
Newark
Athens
Ken
Chauncey
Panne
Nelsonville
Nena
Paint Pleasant
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Middleport
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